Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-15
was discovered that the fsh had been stuffed
with stnnns In incrpasa lis Meipht.

was discovered that the fish had been stuffed
with stones to increase its weight.
1t never rains but it pours on the farm Of
MMyron husklngs, Of Maple Grove; Mich.
triplets two of his ewes to live lambs aud
the family cat to seven kittens.
Rev. John Webb and a big black bear met
recently in the woods of Pocahontas county,
West, Va. Mr.. Webb spent the next i've
hours in lodging around the beast, and
finally killed him with pocket-kniie.
AT Davisville, Cal, the wild geese gather
in immense Numbers on the farms adjoining
The tules, and their ravages are alarming.
Herders are regulrrly employed on some
farms to keep them of BY shooting at them.
The recent strike of log drivers at CHIP
pewa Falls Wis, developed novel way of
creating sentiment Dogs were turned loose
bearing pacards on which were printed: "A
man Is dog that will work tor less than So
day."
One day last week span of colts ran away
In Portland, Ore, and coming to railroad
bridge, ran out nearly nifty feet on the ties
before stopping. Then both went down in a
heap, and were afterward pulled out un.
sCathed.
Eagles have played havoc with young
LAMBS in Grant county, Oregon, this spring.
one farmer lost nine lambs in one day. The
method of the eagle Is to swoop down upon a
helpless little lamb and knock him over, and
then with another swOop pick him up and
carry him away to be eaten at leisure
A citizen of Beaver Falls, Pa, has a dog
that used to answer to the name OF Snipe.
once the family went visit ing and left Snipe
locked up in the house. 1t was forty-three
days before they returned, but they found
the dog alive. lie recovered from his long
fast, and since then he has been called Tan
ner.
A car of corn was shipped from Temple
ton, la, March 25, and first opened in fon du
Lac, Wis.,, April l6 In the car, when the
seals were broken at Fon du Lac, was found
besides the corn fine Irish setter dog in q
very emaoiated condition, but in very good
spirits. He had nothing to eat during his
long ride.
A miller moth flew into the ear of j. G.
Staib Wilmington (Del.) baker three years
ago and was not dislod.ed till the other day,
having been snugly ensconced just inside the
drum of the ear during that time. Milk
poultces and salt water baths drove the in
sect out and it flew several feet before it
dropped dead.
Solothurn, Switzerland, the center of large
watch-manufacturing district. 1t is the nest
of wastail, built wholly of long spiral steel
shavings, without the least part of vegetable
or an imal fiber used in its construction. The
nest has been preserved in the museum of
natural history.
A mechanical expert given to curious in
veStigatlunS estimates that the footing of
locomotives on the New York New Haven
and Hartford railroad in an ordinary days
run, involves waste of steam requiring the
! consumption of $50 pounds of coal to renew.
He estimates the whistling expenses of that
particular railway at $4,000 per year.
Near Dolores, Argentine Republic, there
was recently shower of stones. A few mo-
ments after the plains were covered with the
bodies of geese, storks and other birds and
animals killed by the stones. One inhabitant
OF the place carried forty eight head of geese
home in the space of half an hour. Great
loss was sustained. Many animals were
killed and crops and trees were destroyed.
In 1880 Amassa Gilett bought lot of
| standing walnut and whitewood trees in
Washtenaw county, Michigan, giving q
bushel of wheat tor each tree He cut the
trees and RATED the logs on the Raisin river
to Clinton to be sawed Some of the walnut
logs sank in the water and remained there
about fifty years. when they were taken cut
ard found to be solid as the day they were
cut.